A Year in the Parks

Get info for your FREE 4th grader annual park pass

"Every Kid in a Park" is a free program from the National Park Service, and we are simply helping to promote it. 4th graders and their families will able to apply for their free pass in the Fall of 2015. Check our website and the National Park Foundation for further details -- http://www.nationalparks.org/ook/every-kid-in-a-park.

SEA LIFE Arizona Aquarium

Ultimate Octonauts Experience - Now Open!

Mar. 3rd - Dec. 31st

Ultimate Octonauts Experience - Open March 3, 2016

Explore the amazing world of the Octonauts and play your part helping the crew on brand new underwater missions! Explore a mysterious cave with Captain Barnacles and sound the Octo-Alert to light-up the amazing creatures living inside. Join Kwazii on a thrilling chase to reclaim his long-lost treasure and search the shipwreck for yourself to find the real creatures hiding inside. Help Peso clean-up the coral reef and rescue the creatures in a fun game. Experience this, and so much more in the new Ultimate Octonauts Experience.

Ultimate Octonauts Experience features:
* Explore the amazing world of the Octonauts
* Completely new aquatic animals in dynamic themed displays
* 3D digital talking Octonauts crew members
* A fun game with Peso
* Exclusive, brand new Octonauts animations
Octonauts Ultimate Experience opens March 3, 2016 and will be open to guests for the remainder of the year.

Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker

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Oct. 1st - Dec. 31st

SAVE 15% Off the Moscow Ballet's celebrated Great Russian Nutcracker 2016 North American Tour. USE PROMO CODE: BALLET receive your discount for the Moscow Ballet's celebrated Great Russian Nutcracker 2016 North American Tour. Does not apply to all sections or premium tickets.

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Pet Gift Box

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Nov. 1st - Jan. 5th

Treat your dog or cat with a PetGiftBox this Holiday Season. Filled with only the best quality treats, toys and other goodies, your pets will be beggin' for more. For a limited time only, get your 1st box for 50% off!

Portable North Pole

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Portable North Pole (PNP) is an online platform used by Santa and his elves to send personalized video messages and calls to the people you care about most anywhere around the world.

In just a few simple steps, you can help Santa gather all the information he needs about your loved one and create a tailor-made video message or phone call that is positively magical. But that isn't all Santa and his magical elves have in store! To create truly unforgettable memories, you can even download a HD version of your video to keep for years to come.

Portable North Pole comes available in 3 main package types: the Free (Christmas and Birthday videos), the Video Pass (Unlimited Premium Santa videos + Reaction Recorder, as well as access to previous seasons' videos), and the Magic Pass (Unlimited Premium Santa Videos, Reaction Recorder, HD Video downloads, access to previous seasons' videos)! Available for a limited time only: The Pre-Season Magic Pass, which also comes with a Santa-Approved Nice-List certificate that lets your loved one know if they are one Santa's Naughty or Nice list!

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Dec. 7th - 15th

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Arizona Renaissance Festival

Arizona Renaissance Festival

Feb. 11th - Apr. 2nd

The Arizona Renaissance Festival is a medieval amusement park, a 12-stage theater, a 30-acre circus, an arts and crafts fair, a jousting tournament and a feast -- all rolled into one non-stop, day-long family adventure!

Arizona Renaissance Festival

Student Days

Feb. 28th - Mar. 2nd

Student Days (February 28 and March 2
The Arizona Renaissance Festival gives students a chance to do more than just read about history...WE LET THEM EXPERIENCE IT!

The Renaissance ideas that laid foundation for later inventions are still evident and influential today. Today's THINKERS, DREAMERS, INVENTORS are pushing the boundaries of what is known into the unknown; who knows what their discoveries will become? Remember, Da Vinci knew flight was possible when no one else did...There are Da Vinci's of today just about to emerge...with new ideas and dreams for the future. SciTech and the Arizona Renaissance Festival enable students to see the connection between past, present and BEYOND!

The next day, we were off to the Petrified Forest – one of the largest areas of petrified wood in the world, in northern Arizona. It was really pretty deserted there (as were many of the spots we visited), which was nice. Even the Grand Canyon wasn’t all that busy. There’s something about visiting natural sites that makes one long for a bit of big sky and solitude.

So, petrified wood is basically wood that has turned to stone. A little research showed that this area used to be tropical, and its trees were periodically buried in volcanic ash which mineralized the wood, turning it to stone. Today, the petrified “forest” doesn’t look like a forest at all, more like a desert. I suppose the forest moniker comes from the wood lying around.

And apparently there’s a lot less wood lying around than in the past. There were signs everywhere telling you not to take the wood with you – the majority of it has been carried off. The place seemed so empty, it was easy to imagine people loading up a bucket of “souvenirs” to take with them.

Then, we drove ahead to the Painted Desert (much of which is within the Petrified Forest). The “striped” mountains and rocks were amazing to see.

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